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We have received feedback on this issue from people all across America. Review the graph to the left for a quick snapshot of the responses received to date, or read the responses below.
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Chris Novy, IL
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... news media is being squeezed
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September 17,2003
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Between fewer content contributors and increasing outside pressures to meet unrealistic profit expectations the news media is being squeezed into producing a homogenous, zero calorie, paste which tastes great but has little nutritional value.
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Pat Mccoy, WY
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... diversitty must be found
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September 17,2003
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The competition and diversitty must be found in outside sources, such as the internet, international radio and TV, and s[ecialty publications dedicated to one cause.
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Jan, NE
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... Opposition is opposition
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September 17,2003
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I was appalled by Michael Powell's condescending view that the majority of responses of those opposed to mega media indicated an ignorance of the issue and indicated no more than a PR problem. Not only was it a direct insult but a serious under estimation of the activist American public. I myself wrote a lenghty letter to Mr. Powell regoarding the reasons for my opposition to further de-regulation of an already highly consolidated industry which would be disastrous for our democracy and cited personal examples. But there have been many articulate and detailed spokesmen opposing this move including the FCCs own Michael Copps that further repition is considered by many to be unnecessary. Opposition is opposition whether it is a one line declaration or a ten page diatribe. Mr. Powell should reasses his own PR problems!
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Judy, NY
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... Yeah for the Senate
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September 17,2003
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I hope the FCC ruling is overturned. Yeah for the Senate! Diversity as well as democracy is at stake when potentially a small group of persons, or perhaps ultimately one person, has control over most of what we see and hear.
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Lois, MD
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... illusion in this country
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September 17,2003
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We are living in an illusion in this country, if we think we can have consolidated news services and "real news of substance". People need to wake up to the way we are losing our freedoms in this country. We have freedom of choice - but what if you don't have much of a choice"? It's the same about electing political leaders - you have the freedom to choose between the lousy and the lousiest. Corporate America and Corporate media and Corporate polititicians are ALL IN BED TOGETHER! We are doomed!
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Patricia, WA
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... Get real, please
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September 17,2003
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News is striving to be an Entertainment trash magazine. Browkaw is terrible, and supports Saddam and does not praise our president as he should. You folks don't either. Your poll is not fair, because it's only a freak moment that I am listening to you tonight, and good conservatives won't even know you are having a poll, because they are sick of the liberal presidential candidates and you are always supporting the likes of Brokaw. All that's being shown on your programs are liberals and they are treated like they are royal. You always support the wrong side of everything. You are way too liberal, and way too citified.
Some of us weren't brainwashed by the Ivy League colleges. We can be self educated intellectuals and not pander to liberals. Get real, please!
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Joel, NC
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... democoracy is the loser ...
September 17,2003
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There is a propensity towards impropriety and proclivity to dispense with varacity in an attempt to create a history that is politically correct with the controling corporate views. In essecne this eliminates the dissedent and biases the balance of the information being made public. If information is controled in a way as to change its content or meaning and is then presented as historical fact to achieve a political goal, truth suffers, democoracy is the loser.
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Jay, GA
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... sometimes viewer
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September 17,2003
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"Well,during the 1st gulf war at least mtv played a remake of"Give peace a chance"(L.kravitz&Sean Lennon).But the mainstream media has been dismal for
as long as I can remember. Your show was ok.But O'Reilly is a registered Repub.Duh,it's in Franken's book,which you shown on the
program.Shame on PBS for giving O'Reilly a free pass.
Very yellow indeed.Good reason I never give PBS $$$$
anymore.Newshour is adhorrentat this point.And I know why,but still wheres your balls?Also thanks for not mentioning FSTV,BBC,CNN world news&Democracy now.Leaving,in my opinion,people more frustrated after your show.I guess those above mentioned news outlets are "Guerrilla" and unamerican.Bryant&Gwen only turn it up to 5,kinda like your old boy Russert.Journalist?C'mon.
YELLOW,YELLOW,YELLOW.
Former supporter,sometimes viewer.Good Day.
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E Paton, HI
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... freedom is gone
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September 17,2003
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We only get the "political flavor" of the ownwers. Truth and freedom is not going it is gone!
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Irvin, CA
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... "media moguls"
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September 17,2003
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The unfortunate fact of the matter is that most people are uncritical consumers of anything they see and hear in the media: they turn on their TV or peruse the newspaper and automatically assimilate the greater portion of whatever they are being fed.
But then again, what else can we expect? How can people come to a deliberate opinion on important issues unless they have easy access to a full range of perspectives? What question is there of thoughtful decision-making without complete information that is readily available?
As Thomas Jefferson noted, a properly informed citizenry is vital to a democracy in any real sense of the term.
A media that is owned and controlled by an oligarchy of powerful corporations and individuals means that that the gold standard for news and information is not truth, journalistic integrity or justice, but simply the company's bottom-line. When profit margins take priority over the welfare of the people, such a hegemony of media control is economic tyranny -- fascism.
The CEO's of the media industry aren't called "media moguls" for nothing.
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